/ɛɡˈzɪst/, /ɪɡˈzɪst/
OriginFrom French exister, from Latin existō, exsistō (“I am, I exist, appear, arise”), from ex (“out”) + sistere (“to set, place”) (related to stare (“to stand, to be stood”)), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *stísteh₂ti, from the root *steh₂- (“stand”); see stand. Compare assist, consist, desist, insist, persist, resist. Cognate with Spanish existir, French exister, Italian esistere, German existieren.
- intransitive, stativeto be; have existence; have being or reality
“Cognitive dissonance exists when a person possesses two cognitions, one of which is contradictory to the other”
“Various relationships may exist between character and glyph: […]”
“[…], regardless of whether those characters also existed in other character encoding standards.”
Formsexists(present, singular, third-person) · existing(participle, present) · existed(participle, past) · existed(past) · exist(infinitive) · exist(first-person, present, singular) · existed(first-person, past, singular) · exist(present, second-person, singular) · existest(archaic, present, second-person, singular) · existed(past, second-person, singular) · existedst(archaic, past, second-person, singular) · existeth(archaic, present, singular, third-person) · existed(past, singular, third-person) · exist(plural, present) · existed(past, plural) · exist(present, subjunctive) · existed(past, subjunctive) · exist(imperative, present) · -(imperative, past)